According to some people, any decent human being is “far right”. But, who cares? ‘Sticks and stones will break your bones, but names will never hurt you’ is unknown these days, and people even have breakdowns over names,

I'm glad to see that someone else other than me gets it correct about the Nazis!

And the silliest thing about Australia, is that it is the only place in the world where Liberals are called ‘conservatives’, some of them even ‘far right’.

If I feel the need to put a name to most people these days, it's wa.ker.

This article is textbook historical revisionism. The fantasy that Nazism and fascism weren’t far-right because they borrowed socialist language or Mussolini once edited a socialist paper is kindergarten-level history.

Historians classify fascism and Nazism as far-right not because of economic tinkering, but because of their defining traits: ultranationalism, racial hierarchy, militant traditionalism, violent anti-egalitarianism, and contempt for democracy.

Yes, the Nazis called themselves “National Socialists.” North Korea calls itself a “Democratic People’s Republic.” Names aren’t definitions. In reality, the Nazis banned unions, murdered socialists, crushed class solidarity, and built a racial state.

That’s not “left” - it’s the very blueprint of the far-right.

Mussolini’s early socialist ties are equally irrelevant. Fascism was not socialism’s cousin but its executioner, propped up by monarchists, industrialists, and ultranationalists terrified of the left.

Leyonhjelm’s “far-right means nothing” is mere special pleading. If history’s most infamous far-right regimes were indeed far-right, then the label clearly means something.

Try calling a skinhead neo-Nazi a "lefty" and see how many teeth you have left afterwards.

WTF?

ttbn is at it again I see: "but names will never hurt you’ is unknown these days, and people even have breakdowns over names".

All this from the person who calls others on OLO "liars" when confronted by facts that hurt his feelings, abuses others and calls them names rather than address their comments.

I am right in believing that ttbn once said "ttbn" stands for "try to be nice"?

You can't make this stuff up.

WTF?

The author says: "(Far right)... is a word used by the left, primarily intended to be derogatory."

Labels of this type are often used as a way to end an argument/discussion when facts, evidence and logic are eroding an unsupported belief.

It gets to the absurd level when we get a poster on OLO saying that the woke left needs to wake up. Could there be anything more meaningless?

Gawd ! We're staring the annihilation of this Nation in the eye yet some Woke are more concerned about Left, Right & extremes for both. Does the Left or rather Woke Left ever think how far Right the silent invaders are ? The ones that are in the process of outbreeding us & our authorities are silly enough to pay them to do so. No-one even mentions the this ultra extreme Right moment building up here as it is in England.

Hitler said that “the whole of National Socialism was based on Marx."

Hitler said that the only difference between National Socialism and Communism was that the former was nationalist and the later internationalist.

But what would Hitler know about Nazism!!?